Bigger and Better

Selix Equipment Inc. is focused on safety and after-sales service By Kim Biggar In less than four years, Ottawa-based Selix Equipment, which supplies drill rigs and consumables to the deep foundation construction market, outgrew the facility where it was launched in 2011, moving in early 2015. Now sharing an 18,000-square-foot space in an industrial park in the city's east end with Shore Machine Works - a provider of welding repairs, fabrication and precision machining services that is also owned by the partners in Selix - the company has more than doubled the area of its old location. In addition to servicing equipment in its shop, Selix's mobile mechanics - its “drill doctors” - repair clients' rock drills, drill rigs and hydraulic rock breakers anywhere in Canada.

A New Era

Innovative Piling Solutions, Saskatchewan's largest piling company, sets its sights on going national to give back to their community

The Next Step

Anchor Shoring Group is acquired by GFL Excavating Corporation - Offering demolition, excavation and shoring services together

DFI Celebrates 40 Years

The Deep Foundations Institute has a diverse membership that encompasses all disciplines of the deep foundations industry

Power from Piling

Cyntech and Keller contribute to the Western Alberta Transmission Line

Powering the Future

Five thousand piles set Manitoba's Keewatinohk converter station on solid foundations

The Unofficial Piling Canada Editor’s Choice Awards

PILING CANADA TOP 10: Some of the best articles that Piling Canada has had to offer over the past decade

Meet a Piling Professional

Michael Baxter, BAUER-Pileco

Supreme Court of Canada Clarifies Builders’ Lien Legislation

A third option exists

Building on a Legacy

ROC Equipment

Ticket to Ride

ADSC, NAIT preparing drill rig operator certification

Dealing with Vibration and Noise from Pile Driving

Addressing and alleviating negative public perceptions of pile driving By W. Allen Marr, P.E., GEOCOMP Corporation Pile driving produces vibrations and noise that may extend thousands of feet away from the driving activity. People have become increasingly intolerant of these effects. They complain to government agencies and oppose developments that use pile elements. Their opposition is beginning to seriously affect the pile driving industry in the developed countries. Governmental agencies and owners are choosing alternatives to pile driving to avoid the vibrations and noise. This is an unfortunate and uninformed reaction for three reasons:

Alberta Makes Peace with Highway Landslides

On Judah Hill Road, tied-back tangent pile walls stabilized the landslide mass and anchored the remaining strata

UP Express Airport Rail Link Spur Elevated Guideway

Completing Toronto's Union-Pearson Airport rail link in time for the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games

Pile Driving Solutions

Looking for a solution to the stress that vibratory hammers can place on a crane, one company owner discovered the superior benefits of a German-made damper

PCL named one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers

Seventh time in eight years that PCL has made the prestigious list

Liebherr piling rig in major infrastructure project in Denmark

A Liebherr piling rig was recently used for foundation works for the construction of future apartment buildings in the Danish capital of Copenhagen.

One in 13 Canadian workers make their living in construction

The construction industry is recognizing the contributions of 1.3 million Canadians

Construction Project Failures Weigh on Industry Despite Advances in Planning and Controls

Over half of construction project owners experienced one or more underperforming projects in the previous year, despite confidence in project planning and controls, according to KPMG International's 2015 Global Construction Project Owner's Survey: Climbing the Curve. Further, project owners said only 31 per cent of their projects came within 10 per cent of budget, and just 25 per cent within 10 per cent of original deadlines in the past three years. “As engineering and construction projects get bigger, the complexity grows exponentially,” said Geno Armstrong, global chair, Engineering & Construction and a principal with KPMG in the U.S. “The improvements by owners in planning and risk management have been significant, yet there is further work to be done to reduce the number of project failures, and bring more projects in on time and on budget.”